Iran’s intelligence service includes 30,000 people who are engaged in covert and clandestine activities that range from spying to stealing technology to terrorist bombings and assassination, according to a Pentagon report.

The report concluded that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS, is “one of the largest and most dynamic intelligence agencies in the Middle East.”

The ministry actively supports Iran’s radical Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) that has been involved in terrorist bombings from Argentina to Lebanon.

The size of an intelligence operation does not necessarily correlate with effectiveness, for example the Israeli Mossad clocks in at 1,200 people, but it does indicate the level of commitment and investment in intelligence operations.

And everyone is dwarfed by China which takes a “Put more men on the job” approach to everything and whose “human wave” espionage operations involve millions of people working for overlapping networks of intelligence agencies vacuuming up every piece of intelligence in sight.

Backing it all up is a Chinese intelligence bureaucracy back home that is huge, with nearly 100,000 people working just to keep track of the many Chinese overseas, and what they could or should, be trying to grab for the motherland. This is where many of the graduates of the National Intelligence College program will work.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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The CIA is a shadow of itself, let alone compared to the Iranians. They can run circles around the CIA – hands down.

Iran's Military and Intelligence may be large but they are inefficient and poorly trained. Iran's MOIS is in no way comparable to the Israeli Mossad which ran and continue to run Circles around Irans leadership and military. The is evident by the number of Iranian Scientists who have died under "circumstances"
Iran has never penetrated the CIA,MI6,Mossad or French DGSE whom I pretty sure have moles within the MOIS

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